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Tablet Leadership Competition

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In January 2010, the iPad demonstrated the broad appeal of a new kind of color LCD tablet with better image quality, wider viewing angles, and, near to Amazon’s heart, Apple’s own selection of e-books. About 40 percent of Amazon’s revenues comes from media—books, music, and movies—and those formats are rapidly going digital.

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The Path to Transparency

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WikiLeaks, the swashbuckling new-media organization whose motto is “We open governments,” relies on a technology of extreme reticence called Tor Hidden Services — a part of the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated not to light and clarity but to shadows and opacity, to the increasingly difficult art of keeping secrets online.

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Bookseller Leadership Mistakes

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Mr. Lynch had been named chief executive in March 2010, having previously run the company''s website. had separated their book stores business from their digital business: putting the digital devices, ebooks, and a chain of 686 college bookstores into a separate corporation called Nook Media LLC. Unfortunately, Barnes & Noble Inc.

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Integrated Marketing and Social Networks

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billion in 2010, according to research firm eMarketer. and the site is also likely taking ad money away from traditional media like newspapers and TV. In just two years, Facebook's share of online display ads has surged to 13.6% of the U.S. market, which reached $8.88

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Bank of America: Yesterday and Today

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The overload contributed heavily to the consumer abuses and dubious legal practices that led it to halt foreclosures across the country in October, after the news media, courts and regulators began questioning the bank’s operations. Source: The New York Times, December 12, 2010. . 80% Off - End of Year Sale.

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Grassroots Leadership through Social Power

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We have entered the age of empowered individuals, who use potent new technologies and harness social media to organize themselves. million hours in delays at the crossing in 2010, concludes an upcoming report by the Center for Automotive Research. One-quarter of the truck freight between the U.S. Trucks clocked a cumulative 5.2

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